Quotes About Transformation

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of 'Twilight,' and then it happened again on 'New Moon.' Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.

Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

Act the way that you want to feel.

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

Don't expect others to change. Instead, take on the project and see if you can become the change you want to see in the world. Try your best to let go of anger, blame and seeing yourself as a victim.

So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

Scary thought - what if I get to know myself and I'm someone I don't want to be?

Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Creating Change - The first step to creating any change is deciding what you do want so that you have something to move toward.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

Carbon made only wants to be unmade.

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.